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Old 04-09-2012, 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by bob91343 View Post

Having said that, replacing a 150V capacitor with a 500V unit isn't a good idea, as these type capacitors like to have nearly rated voltage applied. Otherwise they can get leaky and drift in capacitance quite a bit. So replace the 150V rating units with 150-200V rating.
Good to know.
I have a big box of 220uf at 200v and I usually use one of those in an aa5 radio instead of the 2. Seems to work fine
Like you said they arnt very critical of anything.
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